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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) will have to reclassify the customs designation of frozen boneless chicken cut imports, after a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel concluded that it broke WTO rules. The Brazilian government had requested that a panel arbitrated over a row about the fact that in the past, where they had a salt content over 1.2 per cent, they were classified as salted meat.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has ploughed ahead with approving a third money laundering directive, proving that it can sometimes act decisively and – say some critics – bloody-mindedly. Keith Nuthall reports.

JUST weeks before EU presidents and prime ministers infamously failed at a summit in Brussels to agree a future budget, European justice and home affairs ministers approved a key anti-crime law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AT least 12.3 million people are trapped in forced labour around the world, says the International Labour Organisation (ILO), with the overwhelming majority being in Asia. A new report said 9.5 million forced labourers were in Asia; 1.3 million in Latin America and the Caribbean; 660,000 in sub-Saharan Africa; 260,000 in the Middle East and North Africa; 360,000 in industrialised countries; and 210,000 in ‘transition’ countries, for instance in eastern Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCERNS about aflatoxin contamination of pistachio nuts have helped spark the drafting of two Codex Alimentarius global guidelines to deal with the problem: a proposed maximum level for total aflatoxins in unprocessed almonds, hazelnuts and pistachios and a code of practice for preventing aflatoxin contamination in tree nuts.…

Keith Nuthall
THE ABUSE of alternative remittance systems and insurance policies to mask audit trails that can highlight money laundering is the focus of a new report from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The global anti-money laundering body lists techniques used in these industries by organised criminals in its latest annual ‘money laundering and terrorist financing typologies’ report.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL sugar industry will scrutinise the text of an appeal verdict issued yesterday (28-4) by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), confirming an earlier decision that European Union’s (EU) existing sugar subsidies break WTO rules. The European Commission has already accepted the decision, which is important, because it will on June 22 publish detailed reforms and EU agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has responded: “I will take account of this verdict when I finalise the reform proposals”.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
CHINA’S presence at the meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Paris in February was a powerful reminder of how the world’s great economic, trade and regulatory institutions are changing, with consequences that few people probably fully grasp today.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has started formal legal proceedings that could lead the European Commission to restricting the amount of China-manufactured T shirts being imported into the European Union (EU). Investigations into Chinese clothing and textile exports to the EU since January 1’s lifting of global trade quotas have revealed a 187% increase in Chinese T shirt consignments, compared with the first quarter of 2004.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL sugar industry will scrutinise an appeal verdict from the WTO confirming an earlier decision that EU existing sugar subsidies break world trade rules. The European Commission has accepted the decision, important, because it will on June 22 publish detailed reforms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD Bank-funded mining and mineral projects that affect so-called ‘indigenous’ peoples will in future only receive money if these local communities support such developments. The bank’s new revised spending policies also insist that indigenous locals form such a view after “free, prior and informed consultation”.…